During the first few years after I started meditating, the experience of deep silence was absorbing and charming. I would see a dark vastness in front of me. In time this darkness sometimes transformed into a field of brilliant light.
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I am in the Father, and the Father in Me
Was Jesus in the Father, and the Father in Jesus? Did the Father dwell in Jesus? Could they see the Father in Jesus because the Father was in Jesus, actually dwelled in Jesus? When Jesus said "me," did he mean Jesus only, or did he mean us, ourselves, we? Did he want us to become like him, and mirror his words.
Suhrawardi’s “First Vision” Account
Suhrawardi's "First Vision"
“Who Am I?” The Simulation Hypothesis Mindfully and Mormonly Reconsidered
What if we looked at the Simulation Hypothesis from a Mindful, Mormon, Neuroscientific, Transhumanistic, Mosaic, Eastern Meditative viewpoint?
Lawrence Krauss on the Nature of Reality
Lawrence Krauss on the nature of reality, and how it is nothing like our perceptions.
Missionary encounters with people who had divine interactions
On my mission in El Salvador East ('00-02) I once taught a woman the first discussion, and after teaching about the First Vision she said "YES! I've seen the same thing!"
Groundhog Day’s “I’m a god”
I started my talk yesterday at the Mormon Transhumanist Association Conference with this clip from Groundhog Day.
The Mystical Core of Mormonism: A Very Brief Introduction
The experience and concept known as mysticism and its practitioners, mystics, are largely unknown today in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. What are these, and what relationship might they have with the Gospel and the Restoration, particularly with Joseph Smith and his First Vision? The case is made that they are vital to our communion with God, and our ultimate goal of returning to God. Many perspectives and concepts are discussed including personal experience, neuroscience, psychology, transhumanism, computer science, philosophy, popular culture, history of religions, psychology of religion, and contemplative practices, offering tentative associations and insights with Mormon concepts of spiritual experience, atonement, salvation, exaltation, the Second Comforter, calling and election, and theosis or divinization, becoming like God.